“Like the elements that she discovered — polonium and radium — Marie Curie was “unruly,” says actor Rosamund Pike. Pike plays the famous scientist in the new biopic Radioactive.
“The film, streaming on Amazon Prime, is about the power of science and how it can be harnessed in both positive and destructive ways.
“Curie’s discoveries led to medical breakthroughs, but they were also weaponized — into bombs and poison.
“”[Director] Marjane Satrapi and I both had a vision of her as quite an ‘unruly element’ that does not behave as it should …,” Pike explains. She and her fellow filmmakers were “interested in really pushing how challenging we could make her, how much we could make her not conform to traditional standards of femininity.”
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